First off, I caught the worst cold ever, which turned into a sinus infection. I felt like the first week after surgery, tons of pressure and couldn't breathe at all through my nose. How frustrating! I ended up getting anti-biotics and it blew out the infection after about 10 days. I now finally feel better, but of course I caught a new cold. This one is just a normal cold though so hopefully no return of sinus infection. I'm doing the neti pot daily to keep my nose clean and clear. It helps a lot and gets a tone of the mucous out, and after I can breathe extremely well! At this point I'm feeling great, and have excellent flow through my nasal airways, feels like a normal nose again which is awesome.
On the downside... one week ago a scary thing happened. I was playing with my adorable 1 1/2 year old Luna, and she head-butted my nose (by accident of course). She was below me and kind of jumped up really fast, and her little head directly hit the tip of my nose, in an upward direction. Ouch! It hurt really bad for about 30 minutes, but didn't bleed. But then it instantly swelled up, and i saw a hump on my nose, ACK! I freaked out and called my doc asap. He said to wait a few days for the swelling to go down, then come in so he could take a look.
Here's a pic of me one week after the "hit", frustrated and mad that I wasn't more careful:
Thankfully no bones were broken, but he did say that sometimes when that happens cartilage could shift and essentially create a small bump. BUT he seemed to think it could be fixed pretty easily. He said we won't know for sure what happened - if anything - until my 3 month checkup. So worst case scenario is that the cartilage shifted, i have a small bump, and have to get that fixed. I don't know the details of "getting it fixed", but he said it definitely would not require full on surgery again. So that's good news.
Of course i'm totally obsessed checking my nose all the time. The swelling from the hit seems to finally have gone down, but I swear it feels a little different, and I can see a very small bump that wasn't there before. My hubby thinks it's all in my head, and he can't tell any difference. But I'm so worried that all my doc's wonderful work was ruined. The hardest part is that there is nothing to do except wait for my 3 month checkup! So another test to my patience. And there is also the chance that everything is fine, and it's just healing like normal. Who knows! Will update again next week.
Thank you for sharing your rhinoplasty experience. I read through each of your posts as it corresponded with what day post-operation I was at (today i'm at post-op day 7). It was really helpful. Please post an update!!
ReplyDeleteWow I love that you shared your experience. I am 9 days post-op...had an open rhinoplasty and chin augmentation. I loved reading your posts and hearing that I was not alone in freaking out because I couldn't breathe LOL. I hope everything turned out ok with your "accident" and would love to have a final update with pics! Congratulations, you look awesome!
ReplyDeleteHey guys, just letting you know I finally posted updated pics! hope your recovery is going well. :) http://humpbegone.blogspot.com/2010/08/1-year-post-op-update.html
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ReplyDeleteI am also thankful for your blog. I had a revision rhinoplasty with Dr. Naficy 2 weeks ago and am still healing and worrying over many little things. So far very impressed with the results! I have to say Dr. Naficy and staff are amazing---very impressive--above and beyond all others.
ReplyDeleteI also have 2 small children that are alway on the verge of bonking my nose!
Your nose looks amazing and I can't see a need for revision from your photos. Also there is always the chance that your child could bump you again during recovery.
This is a lovely post, thank you very much for sharing your experience it entertainment me a lot.
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